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| greenelvis |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 18:28:34
What do you do when the pain is the truest part of your day?
When the only emotion that comes out is because of the physical pain?
Is this good, or just indifferent?
And, am I just feeding my mind with the "structural" diagnosis by taking pain meds to get to sleep? What is the balance there?
I have been trying all day to convince my mind that the pain is irrelvant, but it is hard when getting up from the couch makes me feel like my lower back is "freezing" up.
This sucks. I wish surgery could just solve this. |
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| Victoria008 |
Posted - 02/11/2007 : 11:45:50
Greenelvis, boy do I feel for you. I am a recent "student" of the Sarno treatment. Being overwhelmed and consumed by the pain and fear and symptoms is what I have been doing for the last 3 years. I want it to stop now! but I am starting to see that it will take time and it is my fear that is making me so impatient. So in the meantime I am grasping at any tiny progress to keep me going and take my focus off my body. Like this morning. My daughter wanted me to go to Church with her, I want to go but I am nervous, my legs shake and ache while I am standing and singing. My mind directs me to the chest pain, the stomach pain and who knows what else. I don't feel like that when I am laying on the couch with my hot pad, so that is what I want to do every chance I get. But with this new hope and knowledge I am learning from the Sarno books and this forum, I am determined to take my life back. So I prepare to go to church. And suddenly I get a headache, then jeez, my neck is hurting, oops, I turned my head too suddenly and there's that kink, better keep my head still. On the way I am getting so nervous, my chest starts to hurt and my heart starts to pound. Fear of heart failure is a great distracter for me (oh I have so many!) So I just kept telling myself, "Accept this as harmless and temporary. Let the symptoms come and just go on with my day". Over and over. Little by little the feelings subsided until they were gone. Even as I stood singing song after song, I did not shake or ache which has not happened in 3 years. A small victory, but one that I wouldn't have had if I had not made myself go out today. A small victory to build on and give me a little more belief, acceptance and courage. So I say don't give up and just keep building on any successes no matter how small. Good luck
Victoria |
| tennis tom |
Posted - 02/11/2007 : 08:07:56
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Originally posted by greenelvis
thanks TT, I'll take a look at the pages you suggest...
The DM and MBP are on there way!
You're welcome GE, reading the books is the cheapest, quickest and best thing you can do to "cure" yourself of TMS pain and suffering.
Good Luck,
tt |
| JohnD |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 22:28:20
you cannot force yourself to believe something. analyze the facts and see if it makes sense on another level. if you try too hard to force yourself to believe it then you are just creating more inner conflict to fuel tms's pool of rage.
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| greenelvis |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 19:46:44
thanks TT, I'll take a look at the pages you suggest...
The DM and MBP are on there way!
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| tennis tom |
Posted - 02/10/2007 : 19:05:03
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Originally posted by greenelvis
What do you do when the pain is the truest part of your day?
When the only emotion that comes out is because of the physical pain?
This sucks. I wish surgery could just solve this.
If the pain is from TMS then surgery could solve it...for a while... then the pain will return to your back or to some other body part.
Dr. Sarno says that surgery is the best placebo we have. All that morphine and percodan helps too.
There was a study where they did mock surgeries and the group that didn't have the real surgery did as well as the group that had the real surgery.
If your pain is truest part of your day, then you may have a raison d'etre problem which roughly translates into English: "the need to get a life".
Write about your emotional issues and not your physical ones. If your pain is due to TMS then you need to shift your thinking to the emotional and away from the structural.
The meds are ok for a temporary acute period but will not help you obtain the state of mental clarity and attention needed to deal with emotional TMS issues.
If you are having trouble coming up with any emotional issues then go to Dr. Sarno's THE MINDBODY PRESCRIPTION and peruse the Holmes-Rahe list of life cycle issues that can cause TMS "dis-ease". I believe it's on page 26 or 46, (you'd think I'd remember, I've probably recommeded it a hundred time by now. The funny thing is that not one person has ever replied that they looked at the list for ideas. Probably proof that most people need their pain and/or what an un-requieted medium message boards are).
Good Luck,
tt
From Dodge City, Kansas
A pleasant 32' |
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